The moment that ‘confirmed’ President Obama is no longer a ‘rock star’

People used to faint during Obama speeches — now they snap selfies and leave before he’s finished.

Attendees at a rally this weekend for Maryland Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown reportedly began exiting the event early in large numbers roughly ten minutes into President Obama’s speech — another hint that the president has lost his “rock star” image, Fox News’ Brit Hume declared Monday.


“It sort of confirms what many of us, a lot of us have thought for some time, which is that the rock star image of President Obama is no more, and that he is just not as interesting to people as he once was,” Hume said.

“Members of his party are somewhat uninterested and demoralized fearing a big Republican win in a few weeks,” he added.

Vulnerable incumbent lawmakers, including Sens. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., Mark Begich, D-Alaska, Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Mary Landrieu, D-La., have chosen this election cycle to avoid the president as they struggle to maintain their seats in Congress.

However, Hume noted, the race in Maryland is almost certainly going to the Democrats. There’s less apprehension on the part of Democrats in that state to avoid the White House’s tarnished brand.

“[H]e still remains pretty much of a rock star on the fundraising circuit and has certainly benefited his party by raising very large sums of money for them in this cycle,” Hume added.

Still, even with the money that he has been able to raise, the president’s inability today to draw (or maintain) crowds like he did in 2008 and even 2012 shows that some of the shine has disappeared from his once prestigious name.

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